Today’s post is the eleventh in a series of reviews of juice cleanses from companies that offer home delivery on their fresh, raw juices.

Today’s juice cleanse came to me courtesy of Urban Remedy out of San Rafael, CA. Created by a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner and licensed acupuncturist, Urban Remedy operates out of the belief that food is medicine and has the power to heal and transform. They cold-press their low-sugar juices to extract nutrients without heat or friction, and on top of that, they use 100% organic produce to make all their drinks.

Arrival: The package was delivered at 10:25am, having been sent with overnight shipping in an insulated box. The contents of the box were securely packed, and everything arrived well-chilled.

I had cleared plenty of space for the bottles in my fridge. Since they’re square-shaped, they can be easily stacked on top of one another if needed.

Options: When ordering an Urban Remedy cleanse, you choose between 3 levels: Signature, Purify, and Super Green. The levels increase in “difficulty;” i.e. Super Green is the most cleansing of the three while Signature is the easiest for beginners. Your cleanse can be 1, 3, 5, or 7 days long. I did a 5 day cleanse, but it consisted of 3 days of Purify bookending 2 days of Super Green.

Each cleanse level contains a pre-selected set of 6 daily juices (i.e. you don’t have the option to choose individual juice flavors). Each bottle is labeled with a number to indicate the order in which you should drink them. Beyond that, you get to decide how quickly and at what times of day you drink each of them.

Variety: All the days of each level of Urban Remedy‘s cleanses consist of identical sets of juices; however, you can combine two cleanses like I did to get a greater variety of juices!

The Juices…

Purify Cleanse, Juice 1: Clean
Burdock, Dandelion Greens, Cucumber, Parsley, Celery, Spinach, & Kale
Each day of the Purify (Level II) cleanse begins with this juice. It contains typical green-juice ingredients like kale, celery, and cucumber, but also some really cool and unusual inclusions like dandelion greens and burdock root. Despite all that green goodness, it’s very mild-tasting and not at all bitter. As I write this, I am just now realizing it doesn’t even contain any sweet fruit, which is amazing, considering the smooth taste!

Purify Cleanse, Juice 2: Boost
Ionized water, Lemon, Turmeric, & Stevia
An inflammation-quelling tonic if there ever was one, this no-sugar-added (stevia-sweetened!) drink is a little bitter from the fresh turmeric juice, but pleasant to sip on, especially after a workout. You can almost feel it bathing your sore muscles with a calming dose of curcumin (the active, anti-inflammatory agent that makes turmeric such a rockstar ingredient).

Purify Cleanse, Juice 3: Support
Cucumber, Fennel, Lemon, Mint, Ginger, & Apple
When I popped this guy open and absent-mindedly took my first sip, my eyes widened in delighted surprise. This juice ROCKS! It is the very definition of refreshing, with its crisp cucumber base and snappy hints of fennel and ginger. I think I sucked the whole thing down in about 30 seconds flat. It was like a juice version of a spa water drink. Come summer, I’d give just about anything to find a pitcher of this stuff in my fridge each day.

Purify Cleanse, Juice 4: Young Love
Blueberries, Açaí, Raspberries, Pineapple, Kale, & Chia Seeds
Smoothie time! It was so neat to be treated to this berrylicious drink in the middle of the day. It’s got staying power thanks to the chia, is naturally fruit-sweetened, and is a nice change of pace from the juices.

Purify Cleanse, Drink 6: Nourish
Ionized Water, Cashews, Cardamom, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Vanilla, Fresh Ginger Juice, & Stevia
Each day of the Purify cleanse ends with this nut milk drink. It’s fairly heavily spiced with cardamom, but it’s a nice, warming complement to the creamy cashews. I love that this is sweetened with stevia instead of agave! The entire bottle contains a paltry 3 grams of sugar, so you can feel good about drinking it even just before bed.

Super Green Cleanse, Juice 1: Dynamo
Cucumber, Parsley, Celery, Spinach, Kale, & Dandelion Greens
Each day of the Super Green (Level III) cleanse begins with this juice, made up of a cleansing blend of leafy green vegetables. It’s not very sweet at all, but is smooth and easy to drink.

Super Green Cleanse, Juice 2: Refresh
Ionized water, lemon, chlorophyll, stevia
Even though this looks electric green in the bottle, it tastes like a very basic lemonade—lightly tart and tangy with a hint of sweetness from, once again, our sugar-free friend stevia. The whole bottle only has 10 calories!

Super Green Cleanse, Juice 3: Clear
Burdock Root, Celery, Cucumber, Spinach, & Parsley
This is one of the more “vegetal”-tasting juices of the Super Green cleanse, but it’s still remarkably smooth and palatable.

Super Green Cleanse, Juice 4: Soothe
Cucumber, Celery, Parsley, Spinach, Apple, Lemon, & Ginger
This is the fruitiest juice of the day, thanks to the inclusion of apple, but it’s also packed with green goodness! The ginger isn’t too punchy, which I always appreciate. This would be a really great green juice for a newbie, as it doesn’t taste very “leafy” at all.

Super Green Cleanse, Juice 5: Ensalada
Cucumber, Celery, Kale, Spinach, Carrot, Parsley, Jewel Yam, & Lettuce
Oh, what a weird and wonderful juice this is! Even though it’s called “Salad” (in Spanish) and contains no sweet fruit, it IS pleasantly (though mildly) sweet, and strangely creamy. Yes, creamy. I think this was the most filling and satisfying juice on the Super Green cleanse.

Super Green Cleanse, Juice 6: Glow
Cucumber, Celery, Spinach, Parsley, & E3Live
This was my first time seeing E3Live in a juice—so cool! E3Live is a very nutritious wild-harvested blue-green algae from Klamath Lake in Oregon, and it’s purported by many to have mood- and energy-enhancing benefits. I found it interesting that it was included in the last drink of the day rather than the first, but it didn’t seem to cause me any trouble falling asleep that night. The juice itself is smooth and not-very-sweet.

Extras:Urban Remedy keeps it simple, sending you all juice and nothing but the juice.

Cost:Urban Remedy cleanses cost $60 a day plus shipping (which costs $45 per 3-day cleanse). This brings the total price of a 3-day cleanse to $225.(Full disclosure: Urban Remedy sent me this cleanse “on the house.”)

Support:Urban Remedy sends you a pre-cleanse email containing tips for how to prepare for your cleanse.

Final thoughts:
I was really impressed with the flavor and quality of Urban Remedy‘s juices; many things stand out about their cleanses versus others I’ve done. Their drinks are quite low-glycemic across the board, with minimal amounts of fruit used (all their juices, green or not, are heavily [if not exclusively] vegetable based) and very low sugar contents. The green juices have only about 6-7 grams of sugar per bottle, and the “higher sugar” drinks still only have around 18-20 grams—for comparison, many other cleanses’ juices can easily contain 40-60 grams of sugar per bottle. To put that in perspective, one entire day of Urban Remedy’s Super Green cleanse contains less sugar than a single bottle of BluePrint Cleanse‘s pineapple juice—whoa. Their cashew milk and cleansing “lemonade” drinks are even sweetened with stevia (other cleanses tend to use agave), so they’re even lower in sugar than the juices! As a result of this low sugar content, I felt that Urban Remedy’s cleanses – the Super Green in particular – were especially, well, cleansing, out of all the juice cleanses I’ve done.

On top of the benefits of the low sugar content, I also loved and appreciated the stellar flavor of all of Urban Remedy‘s juices, their use of unusual and super-nutritious veggies (like dandelion greens, burdock root, fresh turmeric, etc.), the fact that there were no cheap “filler drinks” on any of the cleanses, and the fact that they include nutrition facts on every bottle of juice. The Super Green is also the first nut-free cleanse option I’ve come across. All in all, I can’t recommend Urban Remedy cleanses highly enough, especially if you’re a sugar-conscious consumer!

P.S. Are you interested in cleansing, but not keen on living on liquids for 3 days—or looking for a more inexpensive alternative? Try my Real Food Cleanse!

I love reading all your juice cleanse posts. I’d love to try one of these one day. I’m sure they’re out of my price range though, and my luck with juice cleanses hasn’t been so good in the past (I usually start feeling weak, like I might die, at 2 p.m. Haha!). But a girl can dream. I envy people who can easily juice cleanse without feeling like they’re going to starve. Maybe I have low blood sugar?

It may very well have something to do with blood sugar! For whatever reason, I’ve been having a MUCH easier time with juice cleansing these last few weeks than I did all last summer, and I wonder if it isn’t because I’ve improved (among other things) my blood sugar regulation since then…

I love the idea of all my juices just turning up on my doorstep, ready to go – it’s an awesome idea for so many reasons. Do you think there’s any problem with storing ready-made juices for an extended period like this, even in the fridge?

Urban Remedy’s juices do sound like a cut above the average, especially with their use of the more unusual greens, and the low sugar content, while still managing to taste great and be satisfying. And I love the square bottles – such a simple but oh so practical touch.

It’s not as easy/safe to do that with homemade fresh juices (unless you have a $2,000 Norwalk hydraulic press juicer!) simply because they begin to oxidize more quickly – I don’t store fresh homemade juice longer than about 24 hours if I can avoid it. (And even for that short a time, store such that you fill jars/bottles ALL the way to the top before sealing, so as little oxygen as possible gets trapped inside with the juice!)

Of all the juice reviews thus far, this would be the one I would choose (cept I’m
up in Canada). Yum yum yum yum and yum. Yum?
I’ll be trying a few combos, I’m super intrigued by the turmeric addition.

So many juice cleanse reviews! I still think i’m won over by your Blue Print Cleanse review. the juices are super delish and full of soooo much veggies and fruits My new solution for a reset after overindulgence!

I probably won’t be doing a juice cleanse anytime soon, but I’m glad you’ve reviewed this one. I LOVE the fact that it’s lower in sugar. I have tried and tried and tried to do juices SO many different ways, and it destroys my blood sugar balance. Every. Single. Time. And I just do not care for green juices that aren’t loaded with high-sugar fruit juices. I’m going to definitely bookmark this one and keep it in mind for something in the future. In the meantime, I’m waiting for that e-book…

This is the kind of juice cleanse that makes me WISH with all my mind that I could afford a Norwalk (hydraulic press) juicer like these companies use! It allows for insanely smooth, naturally sweet, and not at all bitter 100% vegetable juices that simply can’t be made with a regular juicer. That’s one of the top reasons I think it’s great that these cleanses exist – even if you have a juicer at home, and can afford all the fresh organic produce, AND have all the time every morning to make all the juice yourself, chances are slim that you’d have access to an amazing commercial juicer that can produce juices of this quality. If only! If I ever win the lottery… 😛

I love reading all your juice cleanse reviews!
Question: I am about to embark on my first juice cleanse and am on the fence between Pressed Juicery and Urban Remedy! I know you did both, so which one did you like better?? I already drink juices and smoothies regularly and eat a whole-foods diet free of processed foods and caffeine so I know I am well prepared to do a cleanse. Both companies just sound so good to me and I can’t decide which to try first!!
I am excited to take the plunge and any advice regarding the two companies would be greatly appreciated!!

I just realized you did this post and cleanse! And loved reading the blow by blow! I’m getting ready to do a cleanse with them and am so excited. The 3-day Signature Cleanse, since it’s my first true cleansing experience but am pumped. Thanks for the TIME & DETAILS you put into this post, Amber. Sooo appreciated!

since I am giving Blue Print the heave ho (one for their sugar content and two as they do not taste as good as they did in the past), Urban Remedy are next on my to-try list after I try Ritual Wellness tomorrow.

Hi, Amber! You mention that Urban Remedy is in your top two or three favorites. Can I ask which is your number one choice? I ask because if I am going to spend the money on a juice cleanse, I would really like to be sure I am choosing the better one. Thanks so much!

There’s just no way to objectively rank them, so it all comes down to personal preference. I say whichever juices sounds best to you are the ones FOR you! Urban Remedy and Ritual Wellness were probably my top two.

I just received my signature cleanse today. I was going to start the cleanse tomorrow, but I have been feeling quite sick. How long can I refrigerate the cleanses? I think I would get the optimal result when I am feeling better.